Attention Quote by Jean Dubuffet

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for…

— Peter Wright

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm…

— Sigmar Polke

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just…

— Henry Moore

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

— Robert Crumb

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

— Jim Lee

“When people look at my work, they often say, “Your picture is so good. I can’t even draw a straight line.” I think everyone…

— Alice Provensen

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my…

— Hokusai

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I…

— Jim Lee

I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not an ideological…

— Neil Denari

“Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to…

— John Berger

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by…

— Pablo Picasso